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"Endowed with five qualities, a monk pursuing mindfulness of breathing will in no long time penetrate the Unprovoked [release]. Which five? "He is a person who imposes only a little [on others]: one of few duties & projects, easy to support, easily contented with the requisites of life. "He is a person who eats only a little food, committed to not indulging his stomach. "He is a person of only a little sloth, committed to wakefulness. "He gets to hear at will, easily & without difficulty, talk that is truly sobering & conducive to the opening of awareness: talk on modesty, contentment, seclusion, non-entanglement, arousing persistence, virtue, concentration, discernment, release, and the knowledge & vision of release. "He reflects on the mind as it is released. "Endowed with these five qualities, a monk pursuing mindfulness of breathing will in no long time penetrate the Unprovoked." See also: AN 5.96; AN 5.98.